2019 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
Title 3 - Agriculture and Forestry
§1462. Definitions
RS 1462 - Definitions
As used in this Part, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
(1) "Applicant" means any individual, partnership, corporation, cooperative association, or other business entity applying for a grower, processor, contract carrier, or industrial hemp seed producer license. For purposes of a business entity, "applicant" shall mean the person designated by the business as being responsible for daily business operations.
(2) "Commission" means the Agricultural Chemistry and Seed Commission.
(3) "Commissioner" means the Louisiana commissioner of agriculture and forestry.
(4) "Contract carrier" means an entity operating in intrastate commerce to transport or deliver industrial hemp for compensation.
(5) "Cultivate" or "cultivating" means planting, growing, or harvesting industrial hemp.
(6) "Department" means the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry.
(7) "Designated responsible party" means a natural person designated by the applicant or licensee as responsible for facility operations of the applicant or licensee facility.
(8) "Grower" means any individual, partnership, corporation, cooperative association, or other business entity that is licensed by the department to cultivate industrial hemp.
(9) "Handle" or "handling" means possessing or storing industrial hemp for any period of time on premises owned, operated, or controlled by a person licensed by the Department of Agriculture and Forestry to cultivate or process industrial hemp.
(10) "Industrial hemp" means the plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of that plant, including the seeds thereof and all derivatives, extracts, cannabinoids, isomers, acids, salts, and salts of isomers, whether growing or not, with a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) concentration of not more 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis.
(11) "Industrial hemp seed" means Cannabis sativa L. seed or other propagating stock which have been inspected and sampled during their period of growth and preparation for market by the commissioner, or by the inspection official of the state in which the seeds or propagating stock were grown, and which have been found to conform to the regulations issued by the commission pursuant to this Part.
(12) "Process" means converting industrial hemp into a marketable form.
(13) "Processor" means any individual, partnership, corporation, cooperative association, or other business entity that receives industrial hemp for storage or processing into commodities, products, or industrial hemp seed.
(14) "State plan" means a plan required for approval by the United States Secretary of Agriculture to monitor and regulate the production of industrial hemp.
(15) "Transport" or "transporting" means the movement of industrial hemp from the premises of a licensee to the premises of another licensee or from the premises of a licensee to the premises of a permit holder pursuant to R.S. 3:1483 by means of a vehicle.
Acts 2019, No. 164, §1, eff. June 6, 2019.
